Grant, your pointers are all interesting, but your comments don't make
sense in the context of academia, which is the relevant context here.
Shriram
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk at cs.brown.edu> wrote:
>> What I find baffling is that [non-Schemers] routinely ignore the Scheme world entirely.
>> How much resources does the Scheme world invest in marketing their
> value to [non-Schemers]?
>> What you said sounds like something I would say, which is a red flag,
> because what you describe sounds more like other people should
> recognize the obvious value than being sold on it, and seemingly this
> is not how the world works.
>> I recently read two developer-friendly pieces of material that touch on this:
>>http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/2077/succeeding-as-a-scientist>> and
>>http://pragprog.com/titles/cfcar2/the-passionate-programmer>> I preferred the former, it is a great presentation.
>> The latter focuses on having a successful career in programming, but
> all of the ideas about selling your product are the same.
>> Tangent: DrScheme is a missed opportunity. It is such a great tool and
> it is not sold at all.It ought to be; PLT has certainly invested
> enough time and resources into making it awesome.
>